| Barbara Noske | |
| Birth Place: | Bussum, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Fields: | Anthropology, Critical Animal Studies, Philosophy |
| Workplaces: | York University
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| Education: | MA in socio-cultural anthropology; PhD in philosophy |
| Alma Mater: | University of Amsterdam |
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| Known For: | Coining the term animal–industrial complex |
Barbara Miriam Noske is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher. She introduced the concept animal–industrial complex in her 1989 book Humans and Other Animals.[1] [2] [3]
Noske holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. In the 1990s, Noske taught environmental ethics, ecology and ecofeminism at York University in Toronto while a research fellow in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She then worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.[4]
According to Anne Scott, Noske "was among the earliest feminist authors to raise the question of human relationships with other animals in a non-essentialist manner".[5]